From the Editor -- Authors' Biographies -- Special Focus: Social Stratification in Chinese Societies Guest Editor: Wu Xiaogang -- Introduction: Institution, Culture, and Social Stratification: Towards a Comparative Study of Chinese Societies (Wu Xiaogang) -- How Angry Are Chinese Citizens About Current Inequalities? Evidence from A National Survey (Martin King Whyte and Guo Maocan) -- Durable Inequality: Who Are China's New Urban Poor? (Wang Feng, Tai Tsui-o and Wang Youjuan) -- The Transformation of the Chinese Class Structure, 1978-2005 (Lin Thunghong and Wu Xiaogang) -- The Effects of Human Capital on Job Promotions in Taiwan: A Comparison of Schooling, Tenure and Training (Tsay Ruey-Ming, Jennifer Yeh Hsiu-Jen and Chuang Chih-Chia) -- Hong Kong's Changing Opportunity Structures: Political Concerns and Sociological Observations (Lui Tai-lok) -- Articles -- Cultural Localization and Its Local Discontents: Contested Evaluations of Cantopop Electronic Dance Music (Matthew M. Chew) -- A Comparative Study on the Corporatization of Higher Education in Hong Kong and Singapore (David Chan Kin-keung) -- Researching Korean Children's Schooling Experience Behind the Model Minority Stereotype in China: An Ethnographic Approach (Gao Fang) -- Book Reviews -- Women in China's Long Twentieth Century, by Gail Hershatter (Gina Lai) -- The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage, by Alexandra Harney (Pun Ngai) -- Colonial Hong Kong and Modern China: Interaction and Reintegration, edited by Lee Pui-tak (Lars Peter Laamann) -- The First Decade: The Hong Kong SAR in Retrospective and Introspective Perspectives, edited by Yeung Yue-man (Marcus Chu) -- In Search of an Identity: The Politics of History as a School Subject in Hong Kong, 1960s-2005, by Edward Vickers (Bernard H.K. Luk).

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